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Performing restore of a 7.0 .bak file to 2005
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Tim0
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Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:05 AM
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I have a database backup I'm trying to restore to a newly created database on a sql 2005 server. I'm receiving the "The media family on device 'C:\etc\etc' is incorrectly formed. Sql server cannot process this media family.
Looking at the backup set it says '*** INCOMPLETE ***' as the name.
I'm suspecting this is a backup file from a sql server v7.0, and I've tried setting compatibility mode to 70 prior to performing the restore but I get the same thing.
It IS possible to restore a 7.0 backup to a db on a 2005 instance right?
Does the *** INCOMPLETE *** mean that the backup was performed using more than one file maybe and I have only one?
Any programs out there that can verify the file for me, or read a few pages and tell me what type of backup it is or something?
Thanks in advance!
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Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:31 AM
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says here you can do the restore:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187495(SQL.90).aspx
Not sure what incomplete means. This?
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/30578212/restore-problem-the-m.aspx
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I'm not sure about the media family error, but you can restore SQL 7.0 to SQL 2005.
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